Player Profile

A player who described himself as a ‘box-to-box’ midfielder, Hollands signed on loan in November 2012, after consulting friend and former Town player Alan Connell, Hollands didn’t have the most impressive of starts in a Town shirt - after making his debut as a second half substitute in a 4-1 win over Yeovil, the following two games that he featured in both ended in defeat by the odd goal - Hollands incurring the wrath of boss Paolo di Canio for a poor performance at Notts County. In the next game, he scored in the wrong net, equalising an early Matt Ritchie goal when he failed to deal with a low cross in a 1-1 draw with fellow promotion candidates Doncaster.

Despite these setbacks, Hollands soon settled into the team - in particular forming a superb partnership with Simon Ferry in the middle of the park - as everything seemed to click into place for the Town over the Christmas period, and after a 2-0 win at Oldham, Hollands netted his first goal in the right net in an incredible 5-0 win over table topping Tranmere, before repeating the feat on New Year’s Day, in another 5-0 whopping of Portsmouth. With Hollands now an integral part of his first eleven, di Canio even offered to fund the loan extension himself - but Hollands himself admitted that he didn’t know what the future held for him as he went into the last scheduled game of his loan spell, another impressive 4-0 win over Carlisle.

The release of Oliver Risser enabled di Canio to extend Hollands’ loan by another month, but just two games into his extended spell, it was cut short by injury - hobbling out of a 2-0 win over Shrewsbury, his injury was later diagnosed as a microfracture in his foot likely to keep him out for six weeks. Di Canio was keen to keep the midfielder at Swindon, in the hope that he would have the finances to keep Hollands until the end of the season, but those thoughts were scuppered when parent club Charlton decided that he should have surgery, extending his rehabilitation for a total of nine weeks, and right up until the end of the season.

Playing Record

Senior

Career details

Club	Details
Hampton Hampton	(youth)
Chelsea Chelsea	1996 (schoolboy) rptd July 24th, 2002 (youth scholarship) November 12th, 2003 (signed professional contract); released (June 2006)
Torquay United Torquay United	March 9th, 2006 (loan); expired (2005/6)
AFC Bournemouth Bournemouth	July 6th, 2006 (unattached); released (rptd May 24th, 2011)
Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic	July 1st, 2011 (announced May 24th, 2011) (unattached)
Swindon Town Swindon	November 15th, 2012 (loan); expired (rptd January 31st, 2013)
Gillingham Gillingham	August 29th, 2013 (loan); expired (rptd January 6th, 2014)
Portsmouth Portsmouth	March 27th, 2014 (loan)
Portsmouth Portsmouth	rptd May 22nd, 2014 ; released (rptd August 18th, 2016)
Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra	August 19th, 2016 (unattached); released (rptd May 9th, 2017)
Eastleigh Eastleigh	rptd May 25th, 2017 (unattached); released (2021/2)
Gosport Borough Gosport Borough	rptd June 14th, 2022 (unattached)